Improvement in machinery for beetling woven fabrics



PATTERSON. Machine-ry for Beetling Woven Fabrics. NO. 141,725.

Patented August 12, 1873'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Errea,

JOHN PATTERSON, OF BELFAST, IRELAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR BEETLBNG WOVEN FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,725, dated August12, 1873; application filed January 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PATTERSON, of Belfast, county Antrim, Ireland,gentleman, have invented certain Improvements in Machinery for BeetlingWoven Fabrics and Fibrous or other Materials, of which the following isa specification:

My invention relates to machinery made use of for beetling wovenfabrics; and the nature thereof consists in certain novel combinationsof the parts of the same, and in the mechanism made use of for adaptingto such machinery certain devices described in the specification of theAmerican patent granted to Thomas Shaw, No. 52,894, February 27, 1866,and of the British patent granted to Alfred Vincent Newton, No. 872, A.D. 1866; and, in order that my invention may be fully understood andreadily carried into operation, I will proceed to describe itsconstruction, as shown on the annexed drawing, reference being had tothe figures and letters marked thereon.

Figure l is a transverse section, and Fig. 2 a side view, 0f my improvedbeetling-machine.

In these views, A A are the side standards, to which is fixed the bar B,supporting the shaft C on a series of bearings, which shaft may bedriven by steam or other power. The box B may be acted upon by verticalscrews D, which may be connected by a shaft, D1, and worm-gear D2, tovary the height of the vshaft G according to the quantity of cloth woundon the cloth-beam. 0n the shaft C are 4 means of the bridles or leatherstraps I11l F',

which pass through and control the stampers E. The stampers E E aremade, by preference, of a cast-iron block, into which a piece of wood issecured, but other materials may be used.

Thefabrics to be beetled are wound on either of the two beams G and Glor G2. The axles of these beams are supported in bearings in the disks HH, which are keyed on the central axle or trunnion I supported inbearings in the side standards. In some cases it may be desirable toemploy more than three clothbeams.

During the operation of beetling the beam G is turned slowly round onits axis by the worm-wheel J on the end of shaft C, which works into theworm-wheel K on the lower end of the shaft L, which on its upper endcarries the pinion M gearing into the wheel N on bot-' tom of uprightshaft O, on the upper end of which` is the bevel-wheel P driving thewheel Q on the horizontal shaft It, on the other end of which is theflanged pinion S driving the wheel T, which is keyed on the axle of thebeam G.

The lateral to-and-fro motion is given tothe beam G during the operationof beetling by means of the diagonal grooved boss U fast to the iiangedpinion S, the groove of the said boss fitting the bowl or frictionpulley V, which is free to revolve on a stud fixed to a bracket on theside standard. The flanged pinion S and the grooved bossUare connectedtothe shaft R by a key and groove; consequently, as the shaft revolves,the bowl or friction pulley imparts a lateral to-and-fro motion to theboss U and pinion S, the anges of which take hold of the wheel T, andthereby impart the same motions to the beam G.

The mode of operation is as follows: The cloth to be beetled is nowsupposed to be wound on the beam G, and so long as the driving-strap ison the fast pulley on the shaft C the stampers E will act in regularsuccession on the clothbeam-G, or in any other required succession,according to the relative position of the eccentrics on the shaft C; andas the cloth-beam receives a rotary as well as a toand-fro motion, it isevident that every portion of the surface of the cloth-beam is actedupon by the stampers until the required beetling finish is obtained. Theforce of the blows can be regulated or modified by varying the velocityof the crank or eccentric shaft O, or the weight of the stampers.

After the fabric has been beetled on the beam G the central axle ortrunnion I is op: erated upon by the worm-gear Y and Y', so as to movethe disks H H and bring the beam GZ into position for the stampers toact upon it,

While the cloth on the beam G which has been beetled is unwound from itupon the beam G1 by means of the pulley W' and the flanged pinion S onthe shaft X, the said flanged pinion S gearing into the wheel T on theaxle of the beam G1.

Then necessary the fabric is unwound from its beam bymeans of the pinionS and plaited down or otherwise disposed of, and in some cases it may befound desirable to air or cool the cloth as it passes from one beam toanother by means of current of air produced by a revolving fan, or bytaking it over suitable guiderollers- In some cases the lateralto-and-fro end motion of the beam on Which the fabric is Wound may bedispensed with by causing a lateral to-and-fro motion to be imparted tothe stampers E E, and box B with its shaft C, which will produce thesame effect, or by making the striking part ofthe stampers diagonal.

IIavin g stated the nature of my invention,

and described the manner of performing the same, I claiml. The shaft C,box B, vertical screws D, eccentrics G1 G1, sliding blocks C3, springsF, stampers E, beams G G1 G2, and disksH H keyed to the trunnion I,combined as described.

2. The Worm-Wheels J and K, shafts C and L, pinion M, Wheel N, shaft O,bevel-Wheel P, Wheel Q, shaft R, grooved boss U, flanged pin-V ion S,and Wheel 'I keyed to the axle of the beam G, all combined and operatingtogether as and for the purposes described.

In Witness whereof I, the said JOHN PAT- TERSON, have hereto set Amyhand this tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred andseventy-two.

JOHN PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

PIHLIP M. J UsTYICE, XVILLIAM C. BATTEN.

